[PragmaticPulp]

> Technical issue (most probably the case) or coverup?

The whistleblower story is all over every news site.

Turning off everyone's favorite time wasting website is the worst possible way to cover it up. How many people are typing "Facebook down" into Google and getting the Facebook whistleblower news story in the "Related News" section of their results?

It's not a coverup.

[jader201]

> It's not a coverup.

While I tend to agree, you can't say that definitively -- no one can at this point, except those at FB super close to this issue.

> The whistleblower story is all over every news site.

As many point out in your other comment above on this, the outage is drowning out the whistleblower story on most search engines.

[Max_aaa]

I know it is not a coverup, just the question that the "world" seems to be asking.

Myself, I would pit to either Technical Issue, or internal sabotage as an act of protest.